There are times, we don't really think it's necessary to jump out of our comfort zone; better to live as the way it is rather than being a risk taker. Go with the flow? Well, I was once, but I challenged myself to the opposite direction and surprisingly I've found my new comfort zone which I never expected. I don't either try to say that staying in a zone may be bad or becoming a risk-taker may bring advantages, but isn't it colorful to once in a while having a new thing? Or trying something you've once said "Impossible" ?

Take this simple example; I never think wearing a knee-length black skirt would suitable for me, that's why I always have cut my skirt to have above-knee length to balance my height.

But, seriously. It's not a rule I couldn't break, right? So, I keep this skirt length as its original, and if you usually wear your black skirt for your office duty, nope, you won't see the casual me today. Because I've transformed it into an outfit you would wear to a pub.

NEXT. I want to thank the gorgeous Tiny Tang from Life As A Petite to nominate me a Liebster award :) She's so kind with lovely outfit post, you should check her blog!

So let's start with the rules:1. You must link back to the person who nominated you.2. You must state 11 facts about yourself.3. You must answer the 11 questions given to you, from your nominator. 4. You must nominate other bloggers, and set 11 questions for them to answer.5. You can't nominate the person who nominated you.6. You must tell the people you've nominated them, so they can take part!

11 Facts About Moudy from Modimelodi

1. Finally completed (+succeeded) watching the Lord of The Rings Trilogy without falling asleep on last December 2013 -on DVD- yes, after years.

2. I love thriller movies' genre most, story which will make you questioning a lot + bad ending; Prisoner, The Call, Side Effects, Trance, etc.

* Time machine, like controlling the time? Cause it's cool to change the history/future

3. Name 3 of your fashion must-haves

* Nude heels, Black Dress, Black Blazer

4. What's your pet peeve(s)?

* cokcroaches

5. What's your most used word(s) or phrase(s)?

* Seriously?

6. Do you have any hidden talents?

* Not so sure. But I always have this feeling, when I meet a person and I'm sure he/she would have another 'thing' with me. In the future they will be my business partner/client or even my bf (lol, this is true), except enemy.

7. What's your favourite thing about blogging and where did you get your inspiration to start a blog from?

* Winning something/chance to trip :) My inspiration from all people whose blog I've read on the internet.

8. Have you met any celebrities? If so, who was your favourite? And if not, if you could meet any celebrity, dead or alive, who would it be?

* Ever, but none of them was my favorite. Love to meet Taylor Swift! (A fan of her recently)

9. What’s your guilty pleasure?

* Not taking a bath for a day, only lay down lazily on my bed XD

10. What's one food you couldn't live without?

* Chocolate

11. Take a picture of your favourite item of clothing/accessory

* My latest Burberry flats.

AND NOW. Question time.

1. What's your future goal(s) by doing blogging?

2. What's your mostly reason when you're not really into making a blog post on the other day?

3. Thing(s) you're obsessed to own?

4. How you treat your me-time?

5. Selfie/Monopod or tripod?

6. Your biggest inspiration/motivator?

7. Do you dare to dream eventhough you know it'd be hard to make it happen?

8. Your most romantic place destination?

9. What is your first ever branded fashion-thing (which cost like more than US$150)?

And the last one. If you read my previous blogpost about my wish going to Singapore (which actually submitted for a contest), the result is I WON IT! I'll go to Singapore on next May 9th! Definitely can't hardy wait.

"Sorry, Madam, we couldn't let your daughter enter this country since her passport is showing

Mr. 'daddy' as her guardian, not you,"

That's what the immigrant officer said to my mom when I was 8. Ironic. Fact is I was shamefully rejected and deported from Singapore on my first time stepping the airport just because I had my passport shared under my dad's name (it was '90s Indonesia's bureaucracy for not letting kids have their own individual passport) and I don't know why he chose for not going with us. Well no one's to blame and I never go to Singapore again since that time.But, its been years now, time goes by, life changes, looking at those cheap flights, plenty of affordable tour promos, how my friends have moved there, how I actually have family living in Singapore, seriously how come I'm still here?

I love the fact that stripes work to enhance our look by creating an illusion in our body proportion. I love experimenting with stripes a lot, moreover a black/white one. It looks so easy to modify (yet tricky in other parts) but you can almost wear for every occasion.

So, here I'm joining Fimela x Dorothy Perkins Styling Competition (Indonesia only) to create 2 looks inspired from Dorothy Perkins Style Essentials 2014 collection. Checking at their collection, I immediately fall in love with their simpleness and the way they claim this collection as wearable for whatever occasions. Superb! Joining this contest, I hope for winning a gift voucher to buy all of DP thingies! Haha, I mean it. Considering I have mostly clothes that pretty hard to mix'n'matched with :( having some of DPSS14 collection would be a blast and grace for my cabinet.

And as for my pick, I'm greatly in love with their Stripe Jersey Skater Dress, too bad I haven't own it :( But, still let me have my faith for I could see it in my dress-cabinet someday, please wish me luck!

As a replacement, my mom has another stripe dress which looks (almost) similar with DP so obviously I use this for my basic (an unbranded one though, bought it in a local store in Bandung). Now, please kindly check my 2 looks. The first theme is about making the stripe dress for formal/professional occasion, while the other one is creating a playful and refreshing look. Hope it turns out good on me.

1. STRIPE FOR PRO-CASUAL

Stripe dress, necklace, belt, shoes : King's //

Blazer : Orange (Magnolia)

2. PLAYFUL STRIPE

Stripe dress, necklace, belt, cardigan : King's //

shoes : Burberry

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So, any critics/comments are highly appreciated. Do you like wearing stripe?

One of my colleagues celebrated birthday last week, and since she's a big fan of Lee Min Ho along with all those K-Pop cultures, we-all the office crew, decided to had a party at one of Korean restaurants in Bandung; Mujigae - Bibimbap and Other Casual Korean Food Restaurant. What a coincidence, never been here before, lol!

I had holiday since last Friday 18th and totally enjoyed it. What I did? I went to a recently booming family leisure park, Dusun Bambu - Village of Bamboo. Yes, another artificial rice field in Bandung, yet another village-like destination for all those citysiders who gets tired living in a big city. Imagining the next 50 years, people may get bored with city lights, skycrapers, towers and all those high-rise buildings, for exchange they would just go back to nature surrounding, breathe the fresh air, get away from all those pollution, start growing their rice field and relaxing until the harvest time.

LOL. Would it just happen like that?

In fact, everyone is talking about this place lately which in the end I felt like trying it too. And of course I needed to persuade my bf to take me there since gladly the location looked like easy to get (my family is too busy to accompany me and my dear bf is the only one who would listen to my whim.). Other bloggers kept writing how direction signs would be so easily seen many along the way, people no need to worry, made me careless for not looking at the address correctly.

So, I deliberately didn't read much information, kept my faith on "go with the wind" which led me fatally to a mistake: we took the wrong route. Well, it started when Apple GPS also didn't show any good sign for leading us and I didn't turn on my GPS track and so I was too lazy to use my google map. We ended up not relying on GPS and I think it's fun for being wrong... once a while, haha.

Bf: Where is it?

Me: Kolonel Masturi

Bf: We're here.

Me: Kolonel Masturi Km 11, guess we just have to go straight still.

few minutes later.

Bf: We reach Cisarua

Me: I think so.

Bf: I mean it. This'd faster if we took from Cimahi earlier.

Me: Um... You think?

Bf: Obviously! Why the heck we took via Lembang?!

It means we took the distance 1.5 longer than it supposed to be. Sorry hun.

Enjoyed sightseeing, even we took the wrong route

I learned to be optimist and positive lately, even if we took a different route, I tried to keep the atmosphere fun and balance, kept myself busy enjoying the nature scenery while my bf enjoyed the breeze so much. Until we finally noticed lots of direction signs leading us to get closer to Dusun Bambu, and when it was only about 500 m left! Oh, how I'm longing to visit this place together with my entire family someday, just if we could have another free-time together I'd love to bring them here. Unluckily my dad is just too lazy dealing with traffic in Bandung lately: seriously uncontrollable.

Got the ticket

Entrance fee cost IDR 10,000/person and motorcycle parking fee IDR 5,000, this gonna be a perfect date, I thought. I felt grateful with the perfect weather, although the forecast showed us it was gonna rain and I sensed small raindrops during our way, it was blue sky after all once we reached the location.

Nice weather at Dusun Bambu

Village of Bamboo literally, means you will see various kinds of Bamboo plantations, not that many though, for examples; Bambu Hijau (Bambusa vulgaris vulgaris), Bambu Bali (Schizostachyum brachycaladum yellow), Bambu Tutul (Bambusa Macculata Widjaja), Bambu Betung (Dendrocalamus asper), Bambu Gombong (Gigantochloa Pseudoarundinacea), Bambu Hitam (Bambusa Lako) and many more. Mostly bamboos are from Indonesia, dominated from Java Island. Interesting! You can educate your little children about plantations on their early ages although I'm not sure I can clearly distinguish all each of them.

But this bamboo tower is quiet something! So tall and smart-looking :) love how the structure is made.

Once we passed the tower, we can ride a public car for free to go directly to their gallery and restaurant. But I chose to walk the path on foot.

Public car. Colorful. Dare?

Actually enjoying rice field scenery isn't something new or special as for me since, lol, I'm 100% Indonesian and we are surrounded by rice field everywhere. But, this sounds fun after all. My bf kept saying me "ndeso", like I never seen rice field before. Buhahaha.

Walk on this bamboo stairs

Kampung Layung - rice field in Dusun Bambu

So, they have this special unique restaurant/gallery called Lutung Kasarung, naming after a monkey, a hanging eating-space. You will stay in nest-like, surrounded by glasses with dangling roots everywhere while enjoying your meals.

That's unique. And how unbelievable I feel so comfortable being inside, without being worry if this nest would fall.

In fact, Dusun Bambu offers you full-range outdoor activities; biking, camping, playground, farmer stuffs, and so on, you can check on their website. Maybe you want to stay for a night, 1 or 2, they also have a room with Sundanese culture touch. Built as a lake-house named Saung Purbasari, it looks homy you will feel the nature of Indonesia easily.

Saung Purbasari at Dusun Bambu

Kids have their zone near Pasar Khatulistiwa, a market where you can buy traditional snacks. A wooden playground which turns out to be another good point to take selfie and for young couple showing off their romance (seriously!), haha!

Playground!

Sadly, I have to end my journey too soon since my beloved got sick suddenly ^^ he wasn't feeling good since the beginning though, it was just me who forced him to take me here I felt so guilty. But still I plan to re-visit here again to explore more sides of Dusun Bambu.

So, we finally took the CORRECT route when going home, directly via Cisarua-Cimahi. It's about 22 km and took about 45 minutes till we got home, by motorcycle including traffic jam.

This is not a sponsored post, but you can always check Dusun Bambu website for more information.

Living in a tropical country, do outdoor activities everyday and you feel confident doing that without sunscreen? You must be kidding me! But that's me back then. I always ignore putting up sunscreen onto my face. I kept saying, it's enough with only spf 15 moisturizer and a compact powder. I was slacking off with skincares so much now I regret things I did. Obviously difficult to fix it now.

Well, right now I'm doing tretinoin treatment for my face - check the story here, it requires me to stop using too many makeups instead highly suggests me increasing my using of sunscreen/sunblock.

Daily temperature in Bandung is around 23-28' C deg nowadays and the sun exposure is really intense it hurts my skin after some period during daytime outdoor. There are so many sunscreens products out there, but reading all those beauty blogs made me even confused since well, there's no perfect sunscreen yet (based on my research); some of them causing breakouts, pimples, oily and dull. But I can go nowhere before finding one!

So I choose sunscreen from Wardah. I have known and been using its products (various variants) for about 2 years and so far I'm doing find with their ingredients. Yes, they claim to be halal (no contain animal-fat or other prohibited ingredient/potential harmful) and safe products, legally licensed and affordable.

Wardah Sunscreen Gel SPF 30. Yes, I fall in love easily with its SPF 30, although some people say it's not enough to wear sunscreen without PA, but I decided to put it into my bag and made my payment for only IDR 29,000 (~ US $3).

The Packaging

With netto 40 ml, placed inside a plastic tube very easy to open and squeeze it. I find no problem with its simple and fresh graphic advertorial on the cover. Claimed to act as a skin protector with Aloe Vera, Vit. E & pro Vit B5, I had no doubt to immediately test it. It works to prevent skin from UVA & UVB exposure, antioxidant also capable on moisturizing skin. Wow.

Application and Result

So it's a gel. Not really transparent, but comes as a thick white cream, a bit sticky. It has a subtle scent, fresh Aloe Vera aromatic. Easy to apply on skin (my face and neck area). The steps are: usually put on my day serum first then applying this sunscreen and finishing it with my powder.

Once I apply it, my face will look so oily, sticky and (sometimes) polished. I think, it takes a little bit of time for the entire cream get absorbed. Most of time I would ignore it and directly apply my powder.

Be careful when applying this cream though, since sometimes it leaves white-cast (moreover if I add the serum). But all in all, I love this product a lot, I feel save doing my activities outdoor, I've been using it for 2 months and I don't experience any skinburn or sunspots.

Don't forget to always clean your face at the end of the day. So far I don't get any breakouts on my sensitive skin. I would probably buy this cream again.

We, as a citizen must use our right properly, moreover regarding election. I feel pity toward whoever who decides for not choosing, don't they even care about their country? I mean, since I acquired my ID card on 17, I never missed any election, always try to participate and I'm proud of it.

April 9th, 2014 is an election day to select People's Representative Council (DPR in Indonesia), though I'm not really sure whether my vote will worth a lot, but I participated and that means a lot.

Still on my journey finding a great formal skirt for a 150-petite girl, I challenged myself to alter my midi skirt (eventually cut it), so it becomes a knee-length skirt which surprisingly it turned out good and I love it.

This stripped black skirt has an asymmetrical-folded cut (that's why I was so tempted to own it, but immediately disappointed when the midi length just didn't work for me), made it a little tricky when adjusting the wanted-length at first, but I said to my tailor to straightly cut the skirt for about 7-8 cm without changing the entire model. What do you think?

I wore this last Sunday to church, the pink coat is new, brandless though, it was my new year's gift from auntie which she ordered from a Hongkong's online shop (dont know what its name). :) Don't think it's a thick winter coat otherwise it's really thin made from cotton. I only wore it to protect me from 18 degree C temperature in the morning, and it's more than enough, you wouldn't bother to wear thicker one in Bandung.

And an LV bag to complete the day.

Have a nice day :) don't be shy to send me critics/comments and tell me what's your today's outfit :) I want to look at it too! See you, xo.

One day, during my daydreaming in the afternoon at my office, when I had nothing to do but think for what would I eat, my mind suddenly told me how I longed for a lunpia, a fried spring rolls filled with minced chicken, bean sprouts, chopped radish, sometimes added with fluffiness of yam, served with leeks and dipped in a soy sauce. I imagined it, I drooled heavily.

Sadly, I couldn't find my satisfaction with lunpia in Bandung, I know some places which selling original lunpia Semarang, it tastes good but with double price and it tortures me realizing I can enjoy more if I go to the original place of lunpia itself. That's why during my trip to Malang last year, I didn't miss my chance to spoil my belly eating lots of Javanese lunpia!

I went to Depot Hok Lay Malang, the legendary restaurant of lunpia in Malang.

I always adore Tim Gunns' - a Project Runway star and fashion guru - matra in finding best style fits our body. My first time got really fascinated by his skill was watching his performance at Oprah Winfrey's show on TV back then (few years ago, I assume), it says silhouette, proportion, and fit. That was the first time I felt so motivated to explore and learn more about my body shape and proportion. I'm not a fashionholic to begin with and I didn't really care about what I wear.

I used to not paying attention toward what kind of denim I choose, what kind of shirt and skirt that'd enhance my look. I just wear what I want regarding the trends. Oh, yes, I love trends, but I didn't care whether it will fit me, lol. But, time goes by and slowly I realize what makes the real me, what makes me comfortable and what makes me not. What enhances me and what ruins me.

My legs are what concerns me most right now. I checked several websites previously such as Carsons Post and Donny Galela to find some tips and facts that my legs are:
1) Petite (this is a serious fact for my 152 cm height, lol)
2) Shapely legs, thighs and bottoms
That's why I'm suggested to wear mini straight skirt or A-line skirt with max knee-length for skirt option, to bring a good silhouette for my proportion.

I've altered and cut my skirt though, but what fails this look I guess: I should wear heels to enhance my legs. But, can't be helped since I was too tired to wear heels. HAHA! But, I think this is an okay to try my brand-new Polo shirt though.

See you!

Ps. The title's sentence was taken from Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange in '5ifth Estate' movie I've just watched earlier. Somehow I'm so excited with that quote :)